Geoffroy de Donjon

Geoffroy de Donjon (1165-23 March 1202) was the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers from 1192 to 1202, succeeding Garnier de Nablus and preceding Afonso de Portugal.

Biography
Geoffroy de Donjon was born in 1165 to the House of Donjon, a dynasty of Catholic French. He was cynical, but he was also a just person. Geoffroy was poor at learning and diplomacy, although he had some military skills. In 1192, he took part in the Third Crusade alongside Grand Master Garnier de Nablus, who occupied the city of Acre.

When Garnier died in 1192 in the Hospital of Acre, Geoffroy succeeded him as the next Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers, a predominantly-French monastic order. He was the eleventh Grand Master, and during his tenure the Hospitallers fought in the Third Crusade against the Saracens of the Ayyubid Caliphate for control of the Holy Land. The Hospitallers privided an edge to the Principality of Antioch's armed forces during their struggles with the Ayyubids and the Sultanate of Rum.

Donjon died in 1202 ten years after becoming the Grand Master, and he was succeeded as Grand Master by Afonso de Portugal.